Major bugs in GWX 3.0

MidnightTempest · 12-02-09, 05:20 PM

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Originally Posted by danlisa

WTF, I have time to spare.

Harbour entrance depth:

When striving for realism (in as far as possible within game constraints) GWX focused on the RL activities of the majority of UBoat operations. This obviously focuses on the Atlantic, North Sea, Pacific, Med and Indian Ocean theaters, not the unhistorical aspects of harbour raiding. While it is possible to alter the sea floor depth using a terrain tool, it was considered unnecessary as all UBoat commanders knew that raiding was a coffin nail.

As for the traffic you found and without checking the campaign files, I would suggest that, while they are sinkable, they are only eye candy. They will only spawn as docked items. Note that Stock SH3 had significantly less harbours and nearly no harbour traffic.

That sucks.........I was hoping to find some larger <10k ton ships to sink in ports rather than trying to find them out in the ocean.

Military naval history in WWII isn't my forte, but didn't Gunther Prien sneaked into Scapa Flow and sank the Royal Oak?

I still wish they give you the option to raid docks.

Besides Portsmouth, several other docks I foud plagued with the impassible depth level are: Loch Ewe, Portland, and Ullapool.

The only one I managed to raid succesfully is Lerwick and Scapa Flow. Lerwick also has the impassible depth floor, but I did some exploring and found a small passage that subs can pass through.

Scapa Flow has no impassible depth level.

MidnightTempest · 12-02-09, 05:40 PM

Another two bugs I found that I must mention:

The attack periscope ship identification system is almost DOWNRIGHT BROKEN at night against stationary ships. I can see the docked ship plain and clear as it is no more than 500 meters away, and yet my periscope fails to recognize it as a ship at all. In a stormy weather at night, I can be literally 10 meters away from a docked ship and my periscope still won't identify it as a ship.

However, when I surface my ships on the exact spot, my watchers always inform me of warships being close by, and enemy ships will attack me in kind, thus ruling out the fact that they may be merely decoration objects.

Second bug is that whenever I reload a save while submerged in the water, my sub will always be at the 11 m depth, semi submerged but my watchers are at duty on the bridge....

And even when I set it to silent mode in the save, after loading the save the sub will be in non-silent mode. Pretty annoying.....

AVGWarhawk · 12-02-09, 07:57 PM

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Second bug is that whenever I reload a save while submerged in the water, my sub will always be at the 11 m depth, semi submerged but my watchers are at duty on the bridge....

And even when I set it to silent mode in the save, after loading the save the sub will be in non-silent mode. Pretty annoying.....

This bug came with the game. Do not save submerged or by other vessels.

FIREWALL · 12-02-09, 08:36 PM

R.T.F.M. SH-3 and GWX aren't the problem.

It's the DA users.

Torplexed · 12-02-09, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by MidnightTempest

Military naval history in WWII isn't my forte, but didn't Gunther Prien sneaked into Scapa Flow and sank the Royal Oak?

And that was about the only time it ever happened. Early in the war before Allied harbour defences were properly strengthened. Aside from laying mines, most U-Boats kept well away from the shallow waters of busy harbours.

frau kaleun · 12-02-09, 10:05 PM

Ya and even then he had to squeeze his way very carefully through a small gap in the underwater defenses. Had the planners of the mission not discovered the gap, I don't think anyone would've ever tried it.

Oneshot/Onekill · 12-03-09, 12:47 AM

Apart from Prien's harbour penetration, there wern't any other U-boat penetration attempts.

The Italians and the British on the other hand, used experimental craft to make harbour penetrations throughout the war.

TarJak · 12-03-09, 01:08 AM

Can we get this thread back OT? My cat ate my dog then regurgitated it's half eaten head in my garage after I installed GWX.

frau kaleun · 12-03-09, 09:09 AM

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Originally Posted by TarJak

Can we get this thread back OT? My cat ate my dog then regurgitated it's half eaten head in my garage after I installed GWX.

AVGWarhawk · 12-03-09, 09:10 AM

GWX gave me hemorroids.

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12-02-09, 05:40 PM	#2
MidnightTempest Swabbie Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 7 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Another two bugs I found that I must mention: The attack periscope ship identification system is almost *DOWNRIGHT BROKEN* at night against stationary ships. I can see the docked ship plain and clear as it is no more than 500 meters away, and yet my periscope fails to recognize it as a ship at all. In a stormy weather at night, I can be literally 10 meters away from a docked ship and my periscope still won't identify it as a ship. However, when I surface my ships on the exact spot, my watchers always inform me of warships being close by, and enemy ships will attack me in kind, thus ruling out the fact that they may be merely decoration objects. Second bug is that whenever I reload a save while submerged in the water, my sub will always be at the 11 m depth, semi submerged but my watchers are at duty on the bridge.... And even when I set it to silent mode in the save, after loading the save the sub will be in non-silent mode. Pretty annoying.....

12-02-09, 10:05 PM	#6
frau kaleun Rear Admiral Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Skyri--oh who are we kidding, I'm probably at Lowe's. Again. Posts: 12,706 Downloads: 168 Uploads: 0	Ya and even then he had to squeeze his way very carefully through a small gap in the underwater defenses. Had the planners of the mission not discovered the gap, I don't think anyone would've ever tried it.

12-03-09, 01:08 AM	#8
TarJak Fleet Admiral Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 17,052 Downloads: 150 Uploads: 8	Can we get this thread back OT? My cat ate my dog then regurgitated it's half eaten head in my garage after I installed GWX.